Peter Hain at the head of an Anti-Nazi League carnival march: "The Labour left ought to be intervening on an activist basis, and not just sending round MPs PH: A millstone.
SC: So how important is the question of changing that leadership? PH: It is crucial, and the need to create an alternative to that leadership is crucial.
But I also think there is a tendency on the part of Labour left activists to indulge in symbolic politics. In the sense that most of what you do is confined to berating and denouncing a right wing leadership and that all your politics are geared towards ritual denunciations rather than recognising that the leadership is only (111 saddle because of the failings of the Obviously the present leadership is an obstacle but it is misconceived to think you can graft a left leadership onto a party whose politics may not be ready for it.
That is what we have to put right, starting at the rank and file level. It's a question of campaigning for, linking up with, struggles outside and creating the conditions whereby an alternative leadership with roots firmly based locally. SC: Attracting people to the Labour Party raises the questions of bans and proscriptions.
PH: I am not in favour of bans and proscriptions but neither am favour of affiliations of other greups. What I am in favour of is left unity in terms of agreeing on specific whether it's the Culs, lig the attack on •trade union This does not mean finding a basis for agreement which is the lowest